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Some golfers fall into a tricky pattern. They often develop this as junior golfers as a way to create a lot of speed if the core isn't used rotationally. In this pattern, the arms are very steep and vertical. The wrists are loaded more as a vertical hinge and the arms have very little rotation to them. Oftentimes, these angles are held late into the downswing. To shallow out the extra steep wrist angles, these golfers will create a lot of axis tilt from the pelvis, early extend, and avoid spine rotation through impact. If you fall into this category and you want to work on it, you'll have to work on both the arm and body patterns to make them blend in a more neutral way.
Tags: Poor Contact, Transition, Concept, Advanced
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This concept video is connecting extra angles to side Bend.
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So there's a population of golfers who
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tend to really hold on to this vertical angle
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like this. And if I did that
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and I didn't have a lot of side Bend you can see how steep and
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narrow this would be so oftentimes if I have a
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super steep armpit pattern like this then what
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I'll do is I'll get a lot of side Bend kind
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of like this. So now when I when
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I'm here and I ultimately do release it, I'm
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gonna have some ability to kind of shallow it
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out oftentimes these golfers really
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struggle with like the Fairway woods and the long
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irons and they can get into really bad contact with
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the short irons. So it's usually the
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middle irons like the nine iron
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through six iron when they tend to be okay. Sometimes actually
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quite good so this can be a tricky pattern
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because two things one that
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Angle is a feeling of power. Now. It's it's localized.
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It's a feeling of power mostly in the arms. There's
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not a lot of feeling of pot of power in the
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core, but it's definitely a
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power feeling and two I oftentimes
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golfers have a hard time feeling that
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their upper body is too far back.
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Downswing happens very quickly. Visually you
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get used to seeing it from this kind of backward sideways
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position and it can be tricky to
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rebalance that
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When I do when I do want to work on that, there's usually
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a two directions that you have
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to go one is getting used to
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being wider earlier and more stacked. So
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getting used to having the arms a little
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bit wider the upper body more forward and then basically getting
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used to hitting it more from
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going into extension rather
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than buckling down which often accompanies
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this really steep arm pattern. What
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happens is the arms get really Steep and then as they as they
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release or as they throw the upper body tends
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to flex forward kind of like this and then
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the lower body you can see a company's that kind
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of like flexes with it. So
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we're gonna focus on the follow through
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side first.
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Of feeling like our arms are a little bit straighter and
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a little bit wider and then we're going into some good extension
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and turn on the way through
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so I'm more over that front foot and then I'm
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extending through just getting used to having this wide
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to begin with.
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Second piece we have to do is we have to
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decrease the incentive to get narrow and
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there's two big places where that happens one is
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that trail shoulder and this is probably the most common is that
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trail shoulder tends to get up forward
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High steep, whatever we want
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to call it kind of gets this way which accompanies kind
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of narrowing and pulling that arm in so I'm gonna
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the combo there is more tension in the front side
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of the shoulder. If I was to bring that shoulder blade down
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and straighten the arm a little bit it stays more in front
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of my pack and it's going to be instantly wider. Now this
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is not gonna feel like I have a lot of chop power but
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this is gonna feel more like I I have
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more kind of rotational throw or
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rotational push pattern from my core. It's gonna
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feel like I'm using more of the rib cage and this area
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as opposed to just hitting it with this so
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I usually focus on more of the shoulder
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blade feeling like it's down and
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connected and the hands are a little bit wider. And
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then if I did that and did the
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old side Bend move, I'm gonna bottom out way back there.
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So what I'll feel is I can start to get into a
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little bit more cover now oftentimes when
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this goes this way your upper body gets
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on top of it. So what almost always starts to
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happen is the first few times you do this you get really steep
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from that down the line camera angle. And so if I get my
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shoulders a little bit better and get my wrists in a little
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bit more shallow position now, I can be more on top
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of it but still coming from a shallow position.
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So phase one we're gonna
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get more on top of it and feel
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wider and some extension and then phase
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two is we're going to make a backswing where
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we feel like we keep that shoulder blade in better position.
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And connect those two. So the shoulder blade is going to
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get in better position. It's going to feel wider maybe even
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and the
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it's gonna feel wider because the arm is straighter, but
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it's also going to feel shallower because the wrist
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has shallowed it instead of keeping it up here and using
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only the body to shallow it that combination is
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gonna support a more gradual kind of
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arm movement on the way through but a more explosive
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body movement going into this extension, so,
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Can be a little tricky pattern to
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work through but most the players who I've had
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worked through It ultimately feel like they get way more
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consistent. Typically that narrow tilt
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pattern is one of the more inconsistent patterns.
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You can hit really good shots, but then you can hit terrible shots.
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Terrible contact Shanks big pull
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hooks really big fat shots lots of
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poor patterns. So I think it's the work on
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you start with the follow-through side and then work to the top of the Swing
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that's gonna help you connect or get out of this really narrow
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arm movement with excessive side tilt pattern.
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Kind of like that.
